🔻 خبرگزاری فرانسه در گزارشی از بازار تجریش تهران نوشته است که افزایش شدید...

🔻 Agence France-Presse, in a report from Tehran’s Tajrish bazaar, wrote that a sharp increase

in prices and a decline in purchasing power have brought down the sales of many shops significantly.

A dried-fruits seller told the news agency that customers who previously bought between two and five kilos now settle for half a kilo or one kilo. He said that businesses need, above all, currency-rate stability.

According to official figures, Iran’s annual inflation in September has reached close to 90 percent, and the prices of foodstuffs have more than doubled compared to last year. The value of the rial in the free market has also risen—from about 1,700,000 tomans per dollar before the war—to around 2,700,000 tomans.

Other vendors have also said that customer numbers have fallen sharply and that their warehouses have remained empty. A 45-year-old woman told Agence France-Presse that now she sometimes goes to the market “just to watch the shops,” and has lost the ability to buy many goods and even to travel.

A car mechanic also said that the number of his customers has dropped to about one-tenth, and that many people have removed buying clothes, going to restaurants, and entertainment from their lives.

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